ENGB30 Lecture Notes - Tartary, Great Fear, Nathaniel Hawthorne
Document Summary
Open war (140: frankenstein fears the monster. Just by the monster"s existence can give great fear to frankenstein and he fears constantly as to what the monster will do next. Frankenstein was always cold toward the monster. I should despair and die, often left some mark to guide me. (172: come on , my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives (174) Frankenstein wants the monster dead but the monster wants frankenstein to live. Asks walton to help carry out his will of killing the monster. He never really understood the fact that just because he creates it that he must take care of it (nurture and educate it) He thought that because he brought it to life that he must end it as well. Frankenstein cannot create another female for the monster because he cannot bear or risk the chance that they can reproduce and make more monsters into the world.
